COVINGTON, Ky. — 1000’s of individuals are anticipated to go to Covington over the weekend. The primary attraction? Beer — a bourbon barrel-aged beer, Darkish Cost, to be exact.
Braxton Brewing Firm is internet hosting its eighth Annual Darkish Cost winter block get together Friday and Saturday. For the primary time within the occasion’s historical past, will probably be held over a interval of two days.
“My favourite occasion we do. We name it our Tremendous Bowl,” Braxton Brewing co-founder Jake Rouse mentioned. “To see everybody come out for the occasion, line up, benefit from the bottles and beer. It’s why we began the enterprise. To see that yr after yr, after yr. We problem ourselves to what can we do to make the occasion higher each time. It’s been a extremely enjoyable journey.”
Rouse mentioned he’s proud to see how far Covington and the Northern Kentucky area have come over the previous eight years.
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“Downtown Covington has grown up proper in entrance of our eyes. We have been typically laughed at after we instructed individuals the place we placing Braxton. The addition of Lodge Covington, the superb distilleries, the Revival Classic retailers, Wenzel Whiskey just some blocks down the highway,” he mentioned. “There’s an amazing city heritage and tradition in Covington that’s roll up your sleeves and create one thing particular. You get to see that in beverage. There aren’t many cities in America that you are able to do that.”
This yr’s Darkish Cost lineup features a bourbon barrel-aged stout, and eight totally different variants. Amongst these variants are collaborations with Busken Bakery and the B-Line.
meetNKY President Julie Kirkpatrick mentioned the collaboration between the B-Line and Braxton Brewing, a bourbon barrel-aged stout referred to as chocolate pretzel bourbon ball, is thrilling.
“We wish a variant that takes under consideration our superb bourbon heritage right here,” she mentioned. “That’s been aged in three totally different bourbon barrels: Boone County Distilling, Outdated Pogue Distilling, and New Riff distilling.”
The B-Line is a self-guided Northern Kentucky bourbon expertise that options 5 distilleries, seven bourbon bars and 6 eating places.
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“Once you take a look at what Kentucky is understood for: horses, meals, bluegrass music, bourbon. We determined we would have liked to do one thing to place extra Kentucky in Northern Kentucky. Bourbon is the way in which to do it,” Kirkpatrick mentioned.
Kirkpatrick mentioned the area receives the angel’s share of tourism {dollars} by having its personal distinctive bourbon expertise.
“We’re bringing the bourbon tradition again,” she mentioned. “We’re planting a flag that we’re firmly a part of the Commonwealth. However we convey the bourbon to the Cincinnati area to marry with the beer.”
Leaders mentioned the wedding of beer and bourbon is a win-win for the area. Final yr’s Darkish Cost occasion introduced greater than 10,000 individuals to Covington.
“We wish you to return down, benefit from the occasion, after which go to the native eating places. Benefit from the neighborhood. That’s what that is all about,” Rouse mentioned.
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Saturday’s occasion hours (bottle gross sales/outside festivities) are from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., nevertheless, Rouse mentioned the taproom will open at 9 a.m. Saturday to accommodate these wanting to observe the USA World Cup match.
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EASTERN KENTUCKY (WYMT) – On Wednesday, President Joe Biden declared that a major disaster exists in Kentucky.
As a result, President Biden ordered federal assistance to supplement recovery efforts. This is locally as well as statewide following the damage left behind by the remnants of Hurricane Helene.
In a news release, federal funding will be available to eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations. This will be on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by the remnants of the hurricane.
This includes many counties in our area: Bell, Breathitt, Clay, Elliott, Estill, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Lawrence, Lee, Letcher, Magoffin, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley, Powell, Rockcastle, Rowan, and Wolfe.
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In the announcement, it said federal funding will also be available on a cost-sharing basis for hazard mitigation measures for the entire state of Kentucky.
Now that the ink has dried and his signing with Kentucky has been made official, Jasper Johnson was finally able to be formally introduced to the Rupp Arena crowd during the Wildcats’ 87-68 win over Western Kentucky on Tuesday night.
Johnson, a class of 2025 five-star point guard born and raised in Lexington, sat courtside with his family to check out his future team in action against the Hilltoppers. During the second half, former Kentucky player Ravi Moss brought out the future Wildcat to midcourt where he was met with a chorus of cheers from the packed crowd of Big Blue Nationites.
After initially committing to Kentucky back in September, Johnson signed the necessary papers to play his college basketball at UK earlier this month. He’s been inside Rupp Arena plenty of times before over the years (and even played here with Woodford County as a sophomore), but never while wearing street clothes as the center of attention in front of over 20,000 screaming fans.
The smile says all you need to know.
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Johnson is one of three signees from Mark Pope‘s first recruiting class as Kentucky’s head coach, joining four-star center Malachi Moreno and four-star point guard Acaden Lewis. The 6-foot-4 guard is ranked No. 14 overall in the nation by the On3 Industry Ranking. He’s currently finishing up his high school career at Overtime Elite as a member of Rod Wave Elite (RWE).
Alongside Tay Kinney, a talented class of 2026 guard who is also from Kentucky and is being recruited by Pope, the two Bluegrass natives form arguably the deadliest backcourt duo in all of OTE. Through five games played this season, Johnson is averaging 19.4 points, 6.2 rebounds, and 5.4 assists per outing while shooting 47.9 percent from the floor and 42.9 percent from deep.
This time next year, we’ll hopefully see him do the same thing in Kentucky blue and white.
Johnson family – Dr. Michael Huang, Kentucky Sports Radio
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Clara Strack scored 24 points and grabbed 10 rebounds, Teonni Key had 16 points and 13 rebounds and No. 14 Kentucky defeated Arizona State 77-61 on Tuesday in the Music City Classic to remain unbeaten.
Kentucky nearly had four players with double-doubles as Georgia Amoore added 20 points and nine rebounds and Amelia Hassett had eight points and nine rebounds for the Wildcats (6-0), who shot 42% and scored 13 points off 14 Arizona State turnovers.
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Jalyn Brown scored 16 points and Nevaeh Parkinson added 12 points and nine rebounds for the Sun Devils (3-3). Arizona State shot just 30%.
The Sun Devils cut a 19-point deficit to 11 after three quarters but a 6-0 burst with baskets by Key, Amoore and Strack built the lead back to 15 midway through the fourth.
Kentucky led 42-23 at halftime after outscoring the Sun Devils 27-9 in the second quarter, scoring the first 13 points of the period with Struck putting in the final seven in the run. A couple ASU free throws later, the Wildcats went on an 11-2 run capped by a Hassett 3 and the lead was 20. Strack scored 14 points and Key 10 in the half.
The teams continue play in the Music City Classic on Wednesday with Kentucky playing No. 19 Illinois and Arizona State facing South Dakota.
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